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The Pentagon is taking new precautions against Omicron. Postal Service leadership is advising employees to be careful about online activity. And the Federal Managers Association chimes in about the NDAA.

This year, many of the old demons that haunted them simply won't be around. Even better, the question isn't whether there will be a January pay raise, but rather how much that 2022 hike will be. The only question — unless the nation is plunged into a recession or another national emergency — is how much the increase will be. President Biden has proposed 2.7%, whereas some congressional Democrats say they won't settle for less than 3.2%. Either way, that is good news for workers who in recent times were lucky to get 1%. And who suffered through several years without a pay raise proposed by a Democratic administration during the Great Recession. So what else is coming up? What about the future of work-at-home programs? Before the pandemic, the Trump administration was dialing them down. Now a majority of feds in many agencies have had 12-to-14 months of working from home. How about proposals to beef up the staff at the IRS and other agencies that have been intentionally downsized in the past? What about those round up the usual suspects proposals to cut current retirement benefits and reduce future monthly annuities? So what are these threats? How serious are they and do they still have a political fan base? Let's ask an expert like Greg Stanford of the Federal Managers Association (FMA). He watches Capitol Hill for FMA and has been to — and survived — numerous political rodeos. Greg will be my guest on today's episode of Your Turn

Public service is both a career and calling for many. While the 15 months have really tested federal employees’ resolve, the two million civilian feds have responded with aplomb to the challenges of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Active and retired federal employees have likely looked at the response with some level of pride in civil servants’ professionalism.   Jessica Klement is the Staff Vice President, police and program at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Prior to joining NARFE, Klement served as the Government and Public Affairs Director at the Federal Managers Association, She joined the show to talk about her organization and Public Service Recognition Week.

Each year the Federal Managers Association honors one of its own, as Manager of the Year. Joining the Federal Drive is this year's honoree. She's the director of policy and systems for the Railroad Retirement Board, Kimberly Price.

The coronavirus pandemic has changed just about everything, including how, where and sometimes when we work. The same is true for federal mangers. Some like Vince Stamper are rearranging their schedules to accommodate their employees and their new normal. Stamper is the region four director for the Federal Managers Association. He told Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko how he's managing his innovation unit at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard remotely. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Her coworkers praise her dedication and the quality of her work on the job. They also admire her community contributions off the job. Now Diana Stewart has been named Manager of the Year by the Federal Managers Association. She's acting director of the command support office at the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, and she spoke with Federal News Network's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Richard G. Thissen is the NARFE National President. Prior to being elected in August 2014, Thissen served as NARFE National Treasurer, a post he had held since 2011. Thissen spent 27 years in federal service as a civilian employed for the Army. He was an Army level career program manager from 1989 to 1995 and served as personnel manager for some 700 civilians stationed worldwide. He has an extensive background in employee and retiree benefits and regulations. He has been a NARFE member since 1995, following his retirement from federal service. He has held a number of positions at the chapter and federation levels, including serving as president of the Missouri Federation. He was elected Region V Regional Vice President in 2002. Jessica Klement is the NARFE Staff Vice President, Advocacy. She is responsible for carrying out the legislative, grassroots and political strategies of one of the nation’s largest federal employee and retiree organization. As the association’s chief lobbyist, she is responsible for taking NARFE members’ concerns to Congress. Prior to joining NARFE, Klement served as the Government and Public Affairs Director at the Federal Managers Association, a membership organization representing the interests of the over 200,000 managers and supervisors in the federal government.   The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the earned pay, retirement and health care benefits of federal employees, retirees and their survivors.

This week on Your Turn, host Mike Causey talks with Federal Managers Association President Renee Johnson and FMA Government and Public Affairs Director Greg Stanford about where we are, what needs to happen to secure the pay raise. Johnson, of the Naval Air Systems Command’s Fleet Readiness Center-East in Cherry Point, North Carolina, has been a fed for 25 years.  Stanford covers Capitol Hill. Later in the show, Mike and his guests discuss what's needed to block proposals eliminating future cost of living raises for FERS retirees while charging FERS workers 6 percent more for their reduced benefits.

While many federal employees find themselves moving from agency to agency or to the private sector, some find a niche in one place and stay there. One of them is the recipient of the Federal Managers Association's Manager of the Year Award. Brendan Cravalho has worked at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for 50 years. He's currently serving as Waterfront Logistics Manager. He tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin how he got his start and why he thinks it's important to support the community around the federal workplace as well.

Lawmakers have spent the last four weeks finalizing appropriations for fiscal 2018, with the intent of packaging all 12 spending bills into one omnibus. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more about what he expects.

Now that things are back to normalfor three weekspro-fed politicians are explaining why they voted to continue this weeks government shutdown even though they profess to hate them. Democrats and Republicans are each claiming victory which seems to be the point of most shutdowns.Meantime people in federal centers around the country are watching the calendar to see if we are going to go through this again. Maybe for a more extended period. Or if maybe, just maybe, career politicians have learned that shutting it downwhile they continue to get paidis not the way to run a government.What next? So what happened this time? And whats likely to happen when Congress revisits the shutdown threat in February? Today on Your Turn, Greg Stanford, director of Government Affairs at the Federal Managers Association will talk about what led to the shutdown and the quick resolution and whats likely to happen in three weeks.You can listen live at 10 a.m. EST at www.federalnewsradio.com or on 1500 AM in the D.C. area.

It's no secret, a lot of appointed policy and management jobs remain vacant for the Trump administration. One glaring example is the Office of Personnel Management. It even had an acting director for the last year of the Obama administration. Now there's an OPM nominee at least one employee group can get behind. The nominee is Jeff Tien Han Pon. Renee Johnson, national president of the Federal Managers Association, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why he's the right man for the job.

Are you one of hundreds of thousands of federal workers who could retire tomorrow if you wanted to?What if Uncle Sam made you a once-in-a-lifetime cash offer you couldnt refuse. And what if that payment, now $25,000, was bumped up by $15,000?Does the possibility of a $40,000 buyout however remote tempt you to hang on to see what happens?The good news is that the Senate may (as in MAY, MAYBE, MIGHT) consider and pass legislation that would raise the maximum for all government buyouts to $40,000. Currently, only Defense can offer feds that much money to take regular or early retirement. Other agencies are limited to $25,000 which, after all those deductions, doesn't have the buying power it did in the 1990s.